Stereomonoizer is an absolute must have to add to your arsenal of tools for mixing and sound design. It is so simple to use and it eliminates all the guesswork, which in turn has saved me tons of time for prepping sessions.
The features are great and being able to convert as many audio files as I want in no time is heaven sent! I highly recommend Stereomonoizer, you will not not be disappointed.
StereoMonoizer has saved me time, but mostly storage space with archiving past projects and tending to an ever-increasing historic library. There are several reasons. If a sound is mono, ideally you want it on a mono track in your session, so that it will utilize only one voice in your DAW. When you record a mono source such as a vocal, you record it to a mono track.
A mono track uses one voice. It takes up a certain amount of hard drive space. And, when you add plugins to a mono track, they require a certain amount of CPU. So if a file contains a true stereo sound such as drum overheads, stereo synth, strings, or blended background vocals , you definitely want them on a stereo track.
But for mono sounds, using a stereo track is simply a waste of resources. In order to do it properly, your mix session preparation can be a laborious, time consuming process. You have to:. Listen to each sound, and determine by ear or through a phase meter whether the sound is mono or stereo. If it is mono, you have to use some utility to split the file into two mono files. Next you have to delete the original stereo file and one of the mono files.
And finally you have to rename the resulting mono file and remove the. R from the file name. Depending on the number of tracks in your session, and your level of patience, this could take an hour or more per song. Finally, after doing all this, you will have a set of files that are ready to be imported into your DAW to mix. It will quickly and efficiently analyze your audio files for you, and identify which are true stereo, and which are mono sounds embedded in a stereo file.
For an average sized session, it can do all of this in under a minute. That saves you all that extra time to get down to the business of mixing, rather than wasting time with boring file manipulation and mix preparation. Easy drag and drop operation. Simply drag files from your desktop or file system into StereoMonoizer window to import into the system. Quickly analyze large numbers of audio files at a time to determine the stereo content of the files.
Analysis will be presented in an easy to understand list, to let you know if each file is true mono, true stereo, or a stereo file consisting of two mono channels.
Innovative waveform display allows you to quickly view any sound in the list, and play back to hear the contents of the file. The intuitive color-coded waveform shows the stereo content of the sound file. Mono sounds are represented by a grey waveform, while stereo sounds are colored bright blue. For the first time ever, you can view the stereo content of your entire file at a single glance, and see which parts of the file have more or less stereo content.
Override the internal algorithm if you want to keep a file stereo, or split a stereo file into two mono files. Between the automatic algorithm and the override feature, you can manipulate your files any way you see fit. But if your sessions include mono sounds on stereo tracks, you are short changing yourself in the CPU department.
And as a result, your overall CPU usage would be a lot less on the overall session, giving you much more room to mix and add additional plugins as needed. If you have mono sounds in stereo files, you are needlessly using too many voices.
For every mono sound in a stereo file, you are using two voices, when you really only need to be using one. Using StereoMonoizer, you can convert those mono sounds into true mono files before importing, thereby minimizing the number of voices used in your session.
Take up less space on your hard drive Hard drives are cheaper than ever, but with the advent of SSD drives which are typically smaller and more expensive, we still have to watch how much hard drive space we use. Better file organization Different DAWs have different options for dealing with panning of stereo tracks, but ultimately if you have a mono sound on a stereo track, the panning becomes more complicated and unnecessarily cumbersome.
In Pro Tools, for example, you suddenly have to deal with two separate pan controls, so for example in order to automate a sound panning from one side to the other, you have to coordinate between these two pan pots so that the automation matches. It is much simpler overall if your sound is on a mono track, so you only have to deal with a single pan pot.
There seems to be no undo facility, but you are given the option to overwrite the original stereo versions of the files in which case you get to create a backup if desired , or to write processed versions to a new folder of your choice, leaving the originals untouched. On the right is a table, whose columns offer information about each audio file.
Beneath this is displayed a waveform of the currently selected file and a play button, allowing you to audition any file before committing to processing. Speaking of which, there are two steps: analysis and processing. You can click on the column headers to sort the files by the source file format, proposed process and so on, which makes it easy to work your way through a large number of files systematically.
In fact, the only thing that threw me initially is that the default GUI needs to be stretched to reveal all the information that it contains. This is an extremely well thought-out piece of software. I tested the Mac version, but as we were going to press a Windows bit version was made available. Matt Houghton.
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